The Reborn Wife is Farming

Because of Mu Yangling's repeated reminders, and the popularity of "explorers" in Western countries, Fan Zijin always speculates about them with the greatest malice. For him, England's envoy is not a good thing.

Qi Haoran is much simpler. He believes in the supremacy of strength. Their national strength is strong, so naturally they will not be afraid of other countries' calculations. Although he can't immediately recover the lost land occupied by Dajin and Xixia, he will deal with England who is far away. But it is not a problem.

So his answer was simple and rude, "Ask them what they want to do, do it if it is beneficial, and refuse if it is not beneficial."

Fan Zijin twitched the corner of his mouth, what on earth was he doing to ask him this question?

But Fan Zijin still did as he said. While receiving the envoys, he sent someone to notify the Ministry of Rites and the emperor.

The reason for the English envoys to come here is very simple. They hope to officially establish diplomatic relations with Daqi and provide good conditions for the trade between the two countries. The specific matters will be negotiated in Beijing.

Hearing this, Fan Zijin didn't dare to hand over the matter to the Ministry of Rites. If it involved business, if it was handed over to the group of nerds in the Ministry of Rites, they wouldn't suffer?

While Fan Zijin asked someone to escort the envoys to Beijing, he asked the Ministry of Rites to hand over the matter to the Ministry of Rites. He Shibosi, this is a professional.

Seeing that he was not at ease, Qi Haoran said, "If you are afraid that the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Department of Shipping will look down on commercial affairs, why not nominate a few old and cunning businessmen to negotiate with them. Aren't there businessmen in the foreigner's negotiating team this time?"

"The customs are different from the national conditions. How can we learn from them?" Fan Zijin was still worried that Daqi would suffer. He, who had been a negotiating envoy, knew how thick-skinned and cunning the Westerners were. Being able to be a pirate, the duke can personally set up a boat to do business, but in my Daqi, the scholars, farmers, businessmen, and merchants are the last, and their status is not high. Still look down on merchants and business affairs, let them work with merchants, it is more uncomfortable than killing them."

Don't think it's hypocritical, it's a kind of value, Mu Yangling didn't understand for a while, these people let the servants at home do business and enjoy the benefits of doing business, but at the same time they look down on business.

She has done research on this and found that this cognition is artificially promoted. The division of scholars, farmers, and businessmen was artificially promoted by everyone after the Han Dynasty. Naturally, it was not because businessmen pursued profits. Basically, they all have a valuable quality—integrity. The reason is that commercial activities can bring greater benefits to people, while agricultural activities have relatively little income, and food is the most important thing for the people. If it is not restrained, the world Who will cultivate the land, and how can there be grain taxes to collect?

What do you eat?

Therefore, for the sake of national stability, the imperial court could only suppress the development of commerce. In addition to layers of tariffs, the status of merchants was also greatly degraded. Even since the Tang Dynasty, the imperial examinations for merchants were restricted. Even now, Daqi still restricts the imperial examinations for merchants. If they can also enter the officialdom, I don't know how many people will give up their farmland to do business.

So when Qi Haoran mentioned this suggestion, Fan Zijin immediately vetoed it, not only because he was concerned about the courtiers' emotions, but also to limit the development of commerce.

Although Fan Zijin was also a businessman, he did not look down on businessmen, but as he grew older, he gradually understood the importance of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, and he was unwilling to break this rule.

Qi Haoran rubbed his chin and said: "Since the foreigner wants to talk about business matters, it's okay to let the businessman listen in. They can raise their opinions with the imperial court afterwards, and the people from the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Shipping Department will sort out their opinions and negotiate with the foreigner. Well."

Fan Zijin thought about it too, he didn't give businessmen the qualifications to negotiate, but he could let them sit in and not let Daqi suffer.

This matter involves their vital interests, and no one cares more than them.

Fan Zijin immediately wrote notes to Qi Xiuyuan, but privately wrote to him to ask him to remember to select a few officials who can accept opinions and have no prejudice against businessmen when appointing.

As soon as the news got out, the merchants were all crazy with joy, and rushed to the capital one after another, hoping that they would be lucky enough to be selected to listen, even if they were not qualified to speak, at least they registered with the emperor.

Because the envoy was halfway there, Qi Xiuyuan didn't have time for everyone to choose slowly, so he named five or six merchants from various local chambers of commerce in the capital, and asked them to negotiate with the envoy.

And four of these six people were Fan Zijin's creditors, that is to say, they used financial resources to support the construction of Daqi, and the emperor had a good impression of them.

Many people couldn't help stamping their feet. Fan Zijin asked many people to borrow money back then, because they all knew that although Fan Zijin had borrowed the money, it was for the emperor. Fan Zijin's money is only five or six people.

Now it seems that they are right, because not only have they paid off the money they owed, but they have also left a good impression on the emperor. Look, all six of them have become imperial merchants, and now four of them can directly Oversee government affairs.

The other two patriarchs who were far away couldn't help stamping their feet. Why did they run out to do business? They should stay in the capital, so that they would have a place in the audience.

The earthquake among the merchants was very calm in the court, because it was not a big deal for them to receive the envoys from England or to let the merchants join the negotiations. The west was too far away, and the courtiers did not pay much attention to it.

Their attention is now on the credentials of Dajin and Xixia. The two countries have requested to open up more discussions, and the total number of them listed in the credentials has reached 27.

Now, there are only thirteen disputes on the border of the Three Kingdoms in total, and twenty-seven were added. Even Tang Dynasty did not have this scale. He Xixia will send envoys to come because of this, and the court and China have been arguing about it recently.

Who can remember the English envoys who are about to arrive in the capital?

At this time, the emperor's attention was on the fact that the royal family was about to have a new baby, and he happily said to the queen: "Hao Ran hopes that this child has been looking forward to it for many years, so you can send them more things. The clothes are sent to Ah Ling, isn’t there a custom of putting boy’s clothes under the pillow to give birth to a boy, Haoran and Ah Ling are looking forward to the girl, so they put the girl’s clothes under the pillow.”

Li Jinghua agreed with a smile, and took Wen Cui to rummage through the boxes to find many small clothes from before Mingzhu, packed them and sent them to Mu Yangling.

Qi Xiuyuan opened the inner library and gave a lot of things.

The imperial palace has always been the place that attracts the most attention. Even if Qi Xiuyuan didn't issue an edict, the imperial palace pulled out three or four carts of things and sent them to Guangzhou at this time, which still attracted everyone's attention.

As a result, the noisy courtiers realized that the emperor's attention seemed wrong.

After inquiring, everyone knew that Princess Rongjun was pregnant.

Therefore, Mu Yangling became known to the world once she was pregnant, and it was not much worse than when the queen was pregnant with the Pearl Princess.